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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

WoundAIssist: Development and Evaluation of an AI-Based Mobile Application for Remote Chronic Wound Care in Elderly Patients

WoundAIssist is an AI‑driven mobile application designed to support remote chronic wound care for elderly patients. It allows patients to capture wound images and complete questionnaires at home, while physicians monitor progress through remote video consultations and on‑device deep‑learning segmentation. A usability study involving patients and dermatologists found the app to be highly usable, of good quality, and positively received for its AI‑driven wound recognition.

By Vanessa Borst, Anna Riedmann, Tassilo Dege, Konstantin M\"uller, Astrid Schmieder, Birgit Lugrin, Samuel Kounev
arXiv AI
Sep 18

TRACE: Accountable Agentic Retrieval for Source Discovery in Digital Archives

TRACE is a training‑free, agentic retrieval framework that enables accountable source discovery in historical archives, addressing challenges such as OCR degradation and genre heterogeneity. Developed for the DECIDON project on French Third Republic political discourse, it is deployed internally for 24 researchers across six institutions. On the HistoriQA‑ThirdRepublic benchmark, TRACE achieves R@10 of 0.856 and MRR of 0.653, outperforming sparse, dense, graph‑based, and other agentic RAG baselines, especially on multi‑hop and cross‑corpus questions, while costing only about $0.02 per question.

By Donghan Bian (ENC, LRE), Marie Puren (LRE, ENC), Florian Cafiero (LRE, ENC)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

A Network Science Approach to Granular Time Series Segmentation

The paper presents a method for dense univariate time‑series segmentation by treating each time point as a node in a graph and applying a Graph Attention Network (GAT). Using visibility‑based graph constructions, particularly WDPVG, the approach achieves competitive performance on a 59‑dataset benchmark, matching or surpassing traditional point‑wise classifiers while requiring far fewer parameters and less memory. The method’s advantage stems from long‑range edges that provide contextual information beyond local windows.

By Ivana Kesi\'c, Carolina Fortuna, Mihael Mohor\v{c}i\v{c}, Bla\v{z} Bertalani\v{c}
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Depth-Only Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation For Privacy-Preserving Robotic Applications

The paper introduces a privacy‑preserving approach to open‑vocabulary 3D semantic segmentation that operates solely on depth data, eliminating the use of RGB images to avoid disclosing scene‑specific visual information. It proposes a stricter depth‑only evaluation protocol and presents UTTO, a model‑agnostic uncertainty‑guided test‑time optimization framework that refines predictions from frozen open‑vocabulary 3D backbones using structured predictive uncertainty. Experiments on ScanNet and Matterport3D show consistent improvements, and additional analyses demonstrate the method’s relevance for privacy‑constrained robotic applications.

By Xuying Huang, Sicong Pan, Maren Bennewitz
arXiv AI
Sep 18

AgentPProf: Semantic Profiler for Long Horizon AI Agents

AgentPProf is a new semantic profiler designed for long‑horizon AI agents that aggregates agent trajectories into pprof‑compatible profiles, enabling flame‑graph visualization and hierarchical attribution of tasks and subtasks. It introduces a semantic operation stack model and recursive operation segmentation to replace traditional call‑stack profiling, addressing the challenge of profiling agent intent rather than code paths. In evaluations, AgentPProf achieves high F1 scores against human annotations and significantly improves problem‑localization metrics, demonstrating its effectiveness in attributing resources, locating issues, and optimizing token cost.

By Yusheng Zheng, Chaokun Chang, Yu Mao, Tianyuan Wu, Yuxi Huang, Tao Ma, Wenan Mao, Shuyi Cheng, Andi Quinn, Wei Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Generative Verification: Rethinking the Uncertainty Signal for Active Learning of Object Detection

Generative Verification introduces an active learning strategy for object detection that uses an independent generative model to re‑derive a detection’s label from the pixels inside its predicted box. The disagreement between the detector’s label and the verifier’s label serves as the acquisition signal, automatically combining localization and classification errors into a single scalar and eliminating the need for hand‑weighted terms. Experiments on PASCAL VOC and MS‑COCO show that this signal outperforms traditional uncertainty and ensemble criteria, improving mAP50 by about one point per round, especially in early rounds where confident detector errors are most common.

By Licheng Zhang, Zheng Gong
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

G2G: Exploiting Intra-Group Geometry for Inter-Group Pose Estimation

The paper introduces G2G, a method that leverages known intra-group geometry to estimate the relative 6-DoF pose between two image groups, a key problem in cross-sequence relocalization and multi-camera rig odometry. G2G keeps a frozen foundation model and adds three lightweight trainable modules—a perceiver resampler, a cross-group bridge with merged self-attention, and a multi-frame pose head—totaling about 32 M parameters, less than 6% of the full model. Evaluated on four diverse datasets covering indoor/outdoor simulation, real-world cross-season capture, and zero-shot sim-to-real transfer, G2G achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on both pose estimation tasks while only requiring supervision from relative poses.

By Yufei Wei, Shuhao Ye, Chenxiao Hu, Yiyuan Pan, Dongyu Feng, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang, Yanmei Jiao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

4D Radar Perception Algorithms for Autonomous Driving: A Review

The review surveys 4D millimeter‑wave radar perception algorithms for autonomous driving, covering signal processing, object detection, semantic segmentation, motion estimation, occupancy prediction, and dynamic scene reconstruction. It organizes the field by perception tasks, discusses radar fundamentals, data representations, and quality‑enhancement methods, and compares radar‑only learning, multimodal fusion, and cross‑modal supervision. The paper also summarizes datasets, annotations, evaluation protocols, and outlines common challenges and future research directions.

By Xumin Wu, Jun Zhou, Jilin Mei, Chen Min, Yu Hu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Detecting Deceptive Recruitment: A Signal-theoretic Machine Learning Framework for Early Identification of Labour Exploitation

The paper presents a signal-theoretic machine learning framework to detect deceptive online job ads that facilitate forced labour. Using 464 verified cases from nine countries and 21 industries, the authors build multimodal models that combine computer vision, natural language processing, and semantic embeddings, achieving ROC‑AUC scores between 0.87 and 0.97. SHAP analysis identifies text quality, risk language, and visual features as key discriminators, and the authors deliver a proof‑of‑concept decision support system that outputs interpretable risk scores for practitioners.

By Sajid Siraj, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh, Amin Vafadarnikjoo, Shuyang Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

HunyuanOCR-1.5: Making Lightweight OCR VLMs Faster and Better

HunyuanOCR-1.5 is a lightweight, end‑to‑end OCR‑specialized vision‑language model that unifies document parsing, text spotting, information extraction, text‑image translation, and multi‑image document understanding. It builds on the HunyuanOCR‑1.0 architecture, improving efficiency with DFlash‑based OCR decoding for faster inference (6.37× Transformer speedup, 2.14× under vLLM) and enhancing capability through an Agentic Data Flow system that autonomously constructs high‑quality training data for long‑tail OCR tasks. The model achieves top‑tier performance on OmniDocBench v1.6 and sets new milestones in ancient‑script OCR, chart/table parsing, multilingual parsing, and hallucination evaluation, while remaining lightweight for deployment.

By Gengluo Li, Xingyu Wan, Shangpin Peng, Weinong Wang, Hao Feng, Yongkun Du, Binghong Wu, Zheng Ruan, Zhiqiong Lu, Liang Wu, Pengyuan Lyu, Huawen Shen, Zibin Lin, Shijing Hu, Jieneng Yang, Hongbing Wen, Guanghua Yu, Hong Liu, Bochao Wang, Can Ma, Han Hu, Chengquan Zhang, Yu Zhou
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

LapaTrack-3D: 6 DoF pre-operative shape tracking for laparoscopic surgery

LapaTrack-3D is a real‑time 6 DoF tracking algorithm designed for monocular laparoscopic surgery, aligning intra‑operative video with pre‑operative CT data. It modifies the ORB‑SLAM2 framework with four key changes: fast initialization using a primitive 3D shape, a pseudo‑segmentation strategy to isolate the target organ, incorporation of the 3D shape as a geometric prior in pose graph optimization, and enhanced imaging via a modified Multi‑Scale Retinex with Chromaticity Preservation algorithm. Experiments on in‑vivo and ex‑vivo data show robust tracking under challenging conditions such as poor illumination, fast motion, and partial visibility, achieving 13 Hz on 1280×720 video.

By Jingwei Song, Javid Hussain Jakir, Ray Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Hao Zhou, Xiaomeng Xian, Maani Ghaffari
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 17

AgriScope: Pixel-Grounded Multimodal Understanding for Agricultural Images

AgriScope is a unified pixel‑grounded multimodal framework designed for agricultural image understanding, supporting image‑level, region‑level, and pixel‑level tasks such as grounded caption generation, referring expression segmentation, and multi‑turn multimodal interaction. It incorporates biologically specialized semantic representations with dense spatial grounding through biological‑semantic encoding, dense spatial representations, and pixel decoding. The authors also introduce AgriGround, a large‑scale dataset of over 500K images and 11M instruction‑following samples, created via an automatic annotation pipeline that combines caption generation, phrase‑level grounding, segmentation mask generation, and task‑oriented instruction synthesis to provide densely grounded supervision for agricultural vision‑language learning.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 17

G^2RA-NET: Graph-based Cross-Slice Relation Modeling with Attention Gating for Medical Image Segmentation

G^2RA‑Net is a medical image segmentation framework that models cross‑slice relations using a graph‑based approach and an attention gating mechanism. It represents each image slice as a graph node, propagates semantic context through graph message passing, and then applies a Cross‑Slice Attention Gate to select relevant neighboring context and emphasize target anatomical regions. Experiments on brain MRI and abdominal CT datasets show that G^2RA‑Net improves segmentation accuracy and boundary quality compared to representative methods, with ablation studies confirming the effectiveness of its design.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 17

Dictionary-Constrained Grapheme-to-Phoneme for Unsegmented Languages from LLM-Annotated Data

The paper introduces a context‑aware neural grapheme‑to‑phoneme (G2P) system for unsegmented languages like Japanese, combining a discriminative conditional random field over a dictionary‑based word lattice with large language model‑generated training data. By generating over two million synthetic sentences, the method addresses data scarcity and achieves superior performance compared to traditional morphological analyzers and neural sequence models. On the Joyo‑Kanji‑Yomi benchmark, it attains 99.62% target word reading accuracy, 0.32% target word phoneme error rate, and 0.14% sentence phoneme error rate.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Forgery Tasks: Testing Advertised Improvements Against Known Answers

arXiv:2609.13617v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 on 8 September 2026, advertising more precise local edits, better consistency across edits, more faithful refere...

By Ankit Raj, Yuxin Zhang, Kidus Zewde, Tommy Duong, Jiaqi Gan, Xingyu Shen, Yuchen Zhou, Huaiyu Guo, Siyu Zhang, Simiao Ren
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

FedPGT: Progressive Gradient Transmission for Vehicular Federated Learning over Time-Varying Channels

FedPGT introduces a progressive gradient transmission scheme for vehicular federated learning over time‑varying channels, where vehicles send high‑magnitude gradient entries according to instantaneous channel conditions. The authors derive a convergence bound showing diminishing returns governed by a power‑law decay, and formulate a stochastic optimization problem that is solved via a Lyapunov drift‑plus‑penalty approach with per‑slot surrogate variables. A low‑complexity resource allocation algorithm is proposed, and experiments on CIFAR‑10 and Argoverse demonstrate a 3.65% accuracy gain and a 12.66% reduction in displacement error compared to state‑of‑the‑art baselines.

By Jintao Yan, Tan Chen, Yuxuan Sun, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu